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# [Teaching a Small LLM to Design Electronic Circuits: Fine-Tuning Qwen3-4B on 100K KiCad Netlists](https://blog.abijah.me/teaching-a-small-llm-to-design-electronic-circuits-fine-tuning-qwen3-4b-on-100k-kicad-netlists?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How I built a 100K-example dataset of executable circuit netlists and fine-tuned a 4B parameter model that scores 88% on functional circuit generation, rivaling GPT-4o's published benchmarks. The Pro

May 9 · 9 min read · blog.abijah.me  
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